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Saturday, 3 May 2014

Blurb - College sophomore Bryn
Dawson is a self-proclaimed poster child for normal. However, the day William
Hayward enters her life, normalcy is the last thing Bryn will be able to count
on if she wants to be with him. Too mysterious and appealing to be good for a
girl, Bryn feels drawn to him in a way that seems out of her control—as if fate
is orchestrating it.

Despite every red flag and warning siren going off in her head telling her not
to, Bryn falls hard for William, knowing he’s categorically different from
anyone she’s ever met. She never imagined how right she was. When William takes
her deeper into the rabbit hole of his world, Bryn must decide just how much
she is willing to sacrifice to be with him, knowing no matter what, fate always
finds a way to have the last laugh.

Spinning a new twist on star-crossed lovers, Eternal Eden will put Bryn through
a gauntlet of turmoil, challenging her to find the power within herself to
become the heroine in her own story.

I love
Nicole Williams’s books and having read The Crash series and the lost and found
series I was really looking forward to getting my teeth into this new trilogy
of hers I had found on Good reads. I read the blurb and thought this sounds ace,
angsty and deep and I was expecting a college romance like the other books of
hers I have read.

Unfortunately
that’s not exactly what I got....... Eternal Eden starts as a YA college
romance and then sort of mutates into a weird supernatural hybrid. Now I can
appreciate a good supernatural series I mean show me a woman anywhere who
doesn’t love a good vampire lol. BUT this book isn’t about vampires to be
honest I’m not exactly sure what they are.

The good
bits.....

·The love at first
sight between Bryn and William, eternal love is a theme I can always get on
board with.

·I am intrigued about
the immortals created to both protect earth (Eden) and the human who live here.

·Patrick is fab
sarcastic and full of cocky confidence.

The bad
bits......

·Pretty much everything
else.

I feel a
bit ripped off by this book I wasn’t expecting a supernatural book and I didn’t
want this to be a supernatural book and unfortunately I think it has tainted my
enjoyment of the book.

The
premise of William being an immortal who’s undercover with the enemy clan so to
speak was weird, as were the rules of being immortal..... Don’t interact with mortals;
don’t create lasting relationships with other immortals????

I liked
Bryn but considering she is in love with William and is immortal it feels like
she is constantly finding reasons to leave him. To me this was annoying at best
and felt like a betrayal of William at its worst, sometimes loving someone
isn’t about sacrificing it’s about being stronger together.

The
Townsend Manor where Johns allegiance lives is opulent and sounded like a set from
the godfather or some other mafia film and John was equally evil and creepy and
to be honest made my skin crawl just as he was supposed to.

But I
hated Williams’s family they were just weird they were like some Walton’s throw
backs and the instant hate from Nathanial and Abigail is never explained......
Frustrating.com

For
quite a long book I’m not sure I understand the plot anymore at the end of the
book than I did at the beginning and although know this is book 1 of 3 I’m just
not inspired to read the next two books!!!

Several
times in the book balance is mentioned that the inheritors (who protect earth
aka Eden by controlling the population etc by sacrificing mortals) and the
Guardians (whose job it is to protect the mortals) create a balance e.g. light
and dark, good and evil but at the end of the book we are told by Williams dad
that William and Bryn will never be allowed to be together because he is a
giver (someone who can create an immortal) and she is a taker (someone who can
kill immortals) hmmmm let me think what is the opposite of life..... Oh yeah
death so to me that would create balance?????? But apparently not even 260
years of immortality can make you see what is in front of your face!!!

This is
just unheard of for me if I start a series out of principle I have to finish it
but with this series I just don’t care what’s going to happen to them L

For me
this book feels like it was created in the post twilight era where everyone was
jumping on the supernatural bandwagon and sorry but I’m not feeling it.

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